Montgomery bus boycott

The Montgomery bus boycott occurred between 5 and 20 December 1956 during the American Civil Rights movement when African-Americans and sympathetic whites boycotted public buses in the city of Montgomery, Alabama to protest the segregation of buses. The boycott was caused by the arrest of biracial woman Rosa Parks for sitting in the white section of a segregated bus, and it led to the Browder v. Gayle court case, which deemed bus segregation to be unconstitutional and had it overturned.